Piedmont Natural Gas to Offer Warranty Services to Customers

Piedmont partners with Home Service USA Corporation to provide warranty services to residential customers; initial offerings focus on natural gas piping and water heater repair and replacement.


CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE:PNY) today announced its plans to begin offering warranty services to residential customers throughout its North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee service areas.   Initially, Piedmont will offer customers two warranty services: a home natural gas piping warranty service and a water heater repair and replacement warranty service, each for a flat monthly fee.  Service work will be provided through a preferred network of contractors in association with Home Service, a leading national provider of home repair solutions.  Piedmont's new warranty service options will be available to customers beginning in January, 2010.  Additional information regarding the new warranty service options will soon be available on Piedmont's website, http://www.piedmontng.com/.

Michael Yount, Piedmont's Senior Vice President of Operations, commented on the new warranty service program, "We look forward to our partnership with Home Service, and we're excited to offer these new warranty services to our customers.  We believe they provide another level of certainty and peace of mind to our customers by giving them access to reliable and professional home repair services whenever a problem may occur.  With a simple phone call and a low monthly fee included on their natural gas bill, we've tried to make these new programs as convenient as possible for our customers."

Jonathan King, CEO of Home Service USA Corporation, "We are excited to be able to partner with Piedmont Natural Gas in offering these new services to their customers.  We look forward to our relationship with them and believe these programs will add real value to their customers."

About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 61,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. Additional information about Piedmont is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/. 

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